“At my meeting with that committee, I informed them of my earlier meeting that morning with the President, the Vice President and the party chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu.

“I told them my position which the president understood very well. At the end of that meeting, the committee, through Chief Bode George agreed that my meeting with the president had superseded their assignment. That was what transpired. I do not know where pretenders have got the message of falsehood they are now spreading that I had been asked to drop my legitimate claim.

“I have said it many times. I will not trade away my claim to the national secretaryship of the party which the courts have affirmed,” Oyinlola said.

Insinuations were rife that Oyinlola might have been persuaded by Jonathan to drop his claim and work for the governorship ambition of Chief Iyiola Omisore, the candidate of the PDP in Osun.